Macclesfield Bikeathon 2011

This will be my 4th time completing the Bikeathon. It's a brilliant sportive, really friendly atmosphere and good marshalling. It has the ambience of a small, homemade sportive while comfortably having easily enough riders on course so you are never on your own either.

This year they've added in a 26 mile option which joins 52, 36 and 16 miles. The 36 is a totally flat course around South Cheshire and is perfect if you're an amateur taking part in sportives for the first time, especially a good warm up for Manchester to Blackpool later on in the year.

The 52 miles is a nice course. The hills are all in the first 20 miles, you climb out of Macclesfield onto the Peaks around Wincle. These are brilliant roads with great views. You then re-join the longer courses around the back end of Goostrey, stopping at Jodrell Bank before heading along Lower Withington and Siddington back home.

You get free sandwiches at the end and the square has a band on with a good atmosphere. Well worth getting involved.

Away
from cycling I'm Head Groom and support my girlfriend Becky (and Pete the Horse) with
her Show Jumping.

There
is something special about stumbling across an absolute gem of a record
and I listen to all sorts from Motown to Disco to House. I've been
DJing since I was 16 with my best mates Adam, Nay & Tom. We're
collectively known as The Homegrown DJs & have toured around the UK
& Europe.

I enjoy spending a lazy Saturday and Sunday after a ride with the club reading The Times. I enjoy business and politics. I like good wine, even better beer and a lot of gin. You can find me down the pub most weekends watching Man United. I love cars and my dream car would be a Porsche 911 GT3.